Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"Though a lawless passion had first suggested to the dark mind of Schedoni the atrocious act, which should destroy a brother, many circumstances and considerations had conspired to urge him towards its accomplishment."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20366
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20366"Mortified, exasperated by her conduct, I begun to suspect that some <!--Page 394--> other emotion than resentment occasioned this disdain; and last of all jealousy--jealousy came to crown my misery--to light up all my passions into madness!"Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20365
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20365"In the eagerness of conversation, and, yielding to the satisfaction which the mind receives from exercising ideas that have long slept in dusky indolence, and to the pleasure of admitting new ones, the Abbot and a few of the brothers sat with Vivaldi to a late hour."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20326
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20326"This place, perhaps, infests my mind with congenial gloom, for I find that, at this moment, there is scarcely a superstition too dark for my credulity."Work: The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents. A Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20301
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20301"A superstitious dread stole over her; she stood listening, for some moments, in trembling expectation, and then endeavoured to recollect her thoughts, and to reason herself into composure; but human reason cannot establish her laws on subjects, lost in the obscurity of imagination, any more than...Work: The Mysteries of Udolphohttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23510
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23510"The gloom of these shades, their solitary silence, except when the breeze swept over their summits, the tremendous precipices of the mountains, that came partially to the eye, each assisted to raise the solemnity of Emily's feelings into awe; she saw only images of gloomy grandeur, or of dreadfu...Work: The Mysteries of Udolphohttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23492
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23492"For you, my young friend, may the sun always shine as brightly as at this moment; may your own conduct always give you the sunshine of benevolence and reason united!"Work: The Mysteries of Udolphohttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23459
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23459"This information lighted up the wildest passions of his nature; his former sufferings faded away before the stronger influence of the present misfortune, and it seemed as if he had never tasted misery till now."Work: A Sicilian Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20296
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20296"But a new affliction was preparing for the marquis, which attacked him where he was most vulnerable; and the veil which had so long overshadowed his reason was now to be removed."Work: A Sicilian Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20295
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20295"Yet the banditti had steadily persisted in affirming that he was not concealed in their recesses; and this circumstance, which threw a deeper shade over the fears of Hippolitus, imparted a glimmering of hope to the mind of Julia."Work: A Sicilian Romancehttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20293
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